What is "torchers"

Usage examples of "torchers".

Cried, cried, rested, then cried some more, with her face in the crook of her elbow on the counter, listening to her breathlessness, the screen on, crying amid images of moronic grinning Dranees with daisies and Aslow Actioneers with torchers as big as small cannons, patrolling the streets in choir robes and faceless masks, and bodies in alleys, bodies in trucks, bodies stuffed into the back seats of cars, dead, alive, and Dr.

An atomic rocket-ship uses but a fraction of one percent of that energy, where­as the new torchers used better than eighty percent.

He thought he'd fall asleep if he stayed where he was, listening to the music, warmed by the glow of the torchers and the press of vampires.